I was just reading the Easy Marketing Blog’s entry on how to achieve the viral marketing apex using mobile phones. I do believe that the springboard of viral marketing has a lot to do with the consumer wanting to create a buzz. If there was no incentive, then why bother?
A lot of free viral marketing does happen over the Internet – yes they do not get paid to post about products and services and campaigns – but that’s because the incentives are not quantified in terms of cold cash. Instead, these “grassroots viral marketers” are in it for the prestige, …read more

Yeah, like I was really expecting it.
I think it’s too early for Apple to pull a fast one and come up with a new product like a smartphone. As to what ancestry it should come from, whether it should be more iPod than phone, or more phone than iPod or more MacBook than phone, only time will tell.
Really nice Mac Pro though.

Got a chance to play with the Nokia 3250 “twist” phone. A rogue among all of Nokia’s designs, this SOLID candybar phone allows you to twist the bottom part of the unit’s real estate in three iterations for phone mode, shooting mode and music mode.

Perhaps the biggest question on the minds of readers would be whether the twisting mechanism provides a good UI compliment for phone and multimedia. The answer is that it wins 2/3 times failing in the realm of the camera. Tilting the bottom half perpendicular to the screen makes it a bit uncomfy for taking shots since …read more

Peter Kennedy, formerly of Sony Ericsson, may be doing a silent but deadly over at Apple with the release of a patent that may very well be the first iPhone. From a consumer point of view, the Zen of Apple can only be unified with the Tao of Sony Ericsson. Couple this with Palm’s hakuna-matata and you get the triumvirate of gadget nirvana. So with a Sony Ericsson guy working on some human interface designs for Apple – for phones, we may soon see something quite interesting this 2006.
Peter Kennedy leaves a very small footprint on the internet- probably …read more

I thought I’d have a really boring weekend at home. Turns out I got a really interesting package in the mail just waiting for me to give her a click! So its weekend fun with the Nokia N90. Other sites have given really long reviews of the phones capabilities. I’ll do a show and tell of how good (or how bad?) the images are.
Recap – The Nokia N90 has a 2.o megapixel camera fitted with a Carl Zeiss lens
The picture shown above was taken in macro mode (see link below for full sized image). I was able to …read more

If you can spare a few seconds, try checking out these feeds from CTIA 2005. We got some CNET editors giving their 30 second commentary on the SE W600a, Motorola Q, Nokia N90, LG’s F7200 and the contraversial Treo 700w.
Now, I’m not CNET editor – I’m the C9 editor! So that means aside from being the life of the party, I get to do my own rundown of some of these products from the lifestyle perspective.

The lucky guys over at Engadget were able to get a few hours to dance with Palm’s Treo 700w, the very first mobile device to break barriers between rival operating systems. The rumor mill has been churning out a lot of stuff about the 700w, formerly known as the Treo 670 from the company formerly known as pa1mOne. Now it’s finally here, in all it’s Windows Mobile 5.0 glory!
I guess with Palm’s Cobalt still in the drawing board, the devs just decided to use Windows, because Cobalt = Windows Mobile. Its really just the same thing. Heh.
This development will …read more

I recently came from a three day mobile tech expo and was curious to find a huge group of geeks (like me!) huddled around the Windows Mobile booth. I tried to push myself through the sweaty crowd to find a man showing off a new Windows Mobile 5.0 device in all its OEM glory – fully functional, no brand, no distributor. it looked like the XDA II Mini (popularized by 02) but slightly thicker.

I grabbed my camera to take a shot but when the evil demo guy saw me whip out my Olympus, he grabbed the unit and with …read more

Engadget has posted a high traffic FAQ on the HTC Universal. Damn. I’ve noticed how the headsets in most convergence phones are being replaced by 3.5mm jacks – the HTC is no exception. Thus, it would be way easier to make calls with a BT-enabled headset. The Universal will ship with Bluetooth 1.2 unfortunately, not with the state of the art 2.0 upgrade. Sucks? Well not really. This is a handheld first and foremost, so hopefully you won’t be doing a lot of huge file sharing.
Courtesy of Engadget

With the launch of the iTunes ROKR phone, the SE Walkman W800i, the announcement of the Nokia N91, plus the various digital music software for the Palm OS and Windows Mobile platforms, I’d wonder when a full-fledged MP3 player will cease to exist.
Some may wonder why the ROKR doesn’t live up to Apple’s design – let’s face the music coz’ it kinda sucks compared to everything else Apple has released design-wise. A move perhaps to focus on the iPod, a full fledged digital music player? Nah, I think it has more to do with copyright stuff.
Apple isn’t afraid of phones …read more